Unknown (to me) Game Problem

First of all, hello, and thank you for taking your time.

The problem I'm having has been with two specific games: Spectrobes and House of the Dead Overkill. Both of these games load properly, allow me to go through the opening menus, and create a save. After that the games are stuck on the initial loading of the story mode. Neither are black screens, it is quite clear that the games are on loading screens. I've found issues on the boards including black screens and errors, but this is a bit different, so I am not quite sure what the issue is.

I soft modded my about 2 weeks ago using Dogeggs great tutorial. I'm on 4.1 menu and followed all instructions. I've also played about six other games and have not had this issue.

I'm using verbatim DVD-Rs, imgburn, and verifying the burned discs. I currently do not have access to usb loading.

The games are both NTSC and I have an LU37 US wii.

I'm really not sure if this is something simple like neogamma settings or what, but I'd really appreciate some help.